. Electric railway journal . UNUSUAL OPERATING CONDITIONS ON NEW YORK RAILWAYS. ANOTHER VIEW SHOWING TEMPORARY TRACK SUPPORTS undermining of the big conduit by the water from asmall leak. The break occurred directly below the pointwhere the street car tracks form a curve between thetwo intersecting streets. The leak was not caused byshocks from the electric railway because the railwaytracks were supported on I-beams from walls placedbetween the pipes for the very purpose of preventingshocks. Fortunately the construction of the conduitrailway is such that the track and conduit form a self-conta
. Electric railway journal . UNUSUAL OPERATING CONDITIONS ON NEW YORK RAILWAYS. ANOTHER VIEW SHOWING TEMPORARY TRACK SUPPORTS undermining of the big conduit by the water from asmall leak. The break occurred directly below the pointwhere the street car tracks form a curve between thetwo intersecting streets. The leak was not caused byshocks from the electric railway because the railwaytracks were supported on I-beams from walls placedbetween the pipes for the very purpose of preventingshocks. Fortunately the construction of the conduitrailway is such that the track and conduit form a self-contained structure, the rails and conduit being at-tached to the same cast-iron yokes. It was possibletherefore to install temporary supports and car servicewas maintained without difficulty. The break dis-closed a dangerous situation in view of the fact thatthe high apartment houses adjoining were in dangerof being undermined from a break of this kind. 1212 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLV, No. 26 Equipment and Its Maintenance Short Descriptions of Labor, Mechanical and Elect
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